I'm a sailor.
Ships sound a certain way, even when not sailing. If they ever sound differently, you know something has happened and you'll have to respond to it. Even if it's just a drill, the response is the same.
My sailing days are actually behind me, but I still get tense when I hear unusual sounds in my house or office.
For French that's correct until you start talking about different sized rocks. Regular rocks are feminine, but boulders and pebbles are both masculine.
I'm extremely sensitive to changes in noise levels. Whether it's a very loud and short noise, like a door slamming, or some change in background noise, like a furnace turning on, I'm just acutely aware of it.
I do this, and I also still say the date and time in the first sentence of a voice mail.
I played at varying levels of intensity between 2010 and 2015.
I met my first serious girlfriend through the game. It was also a long-distance relationship, and led to the frankly absurd story of how I lost my virginity, which involved a massive snowstorm and a lost passport. The relationship didn't work out, but it was formative for me as a person.
These days, I still occasionally hang out with some of my old guild mates, who still play the game. Not as much anymore, especially after our D&D campaign ended, but I still consider them some of my closer friends.
I got a free three month trial for Google's AI Pro plan, and Google wouldn't shut up about the fact that I had the offer waiting, so I gave it a shot. It's been more annoying than anything else. Gemini made me feel icky when I tried it, and now I get irritating popups asking me to use an AI tool every single time I go to type something in a Doc or Sheet
My brother in Christ, I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics. I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand, and it is mostly text. This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind. I do not need your help with anything.
I had a DM who did something similar. We all had to describe five NPCs that were important to our characters: two friends or family members, two enemies or rivals, and one fate-bonded character who could be friend or foe.
In addition to the RP possiblities, it also gave the DM a ready supply of NPCs to populate the setting.
In addition to the normal investment stuff (for me it would probably be Bitcoin, or maybe shorting the market in 2008), here are a few things I'd have to consider:
I'm now an atheist in the body of a teenager who is super involved in his church and private religious school. I'll need to be delicate in navigating this, as I can't just suddenly turn all those things off.
I'm being dropped into one of the toughest years of my life mentally. All the bullying I suffered starting at age 10 is finally manifesting in bouts of anxiety and depression. I'll be better able to handle it, and even push back at the new round of bullying. I don't know if I'll still be friends with the same people.
I'm going to get another shot at my relationship failures, starting almost immediately with my high school crush. I know that my wife will be waiting for me sometime in the mid 2010s, but all the very many other chances I had are also in front of me. I'll have the experience to better handle them, and I'll won't have the inhibitions and hangups of my youth (see point #1). The question is what to do if any of them turn serious, as again, it will be another 10 years before I will be able to meet my wife.
I'm going to get another chance to consider my career. I don't think I would change it, as that would mean not meeting my wife. However, I know there are things I could do better that would make the first 10 years of my career more fulfilling.
'Epitome' will forever be epi-tome in my head: 'epi' like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.
And the 'c' in 'indictment' also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.
All my grandparents save one have passed on, and I have no actual relationship with the one that still lives. So I'm not terribly concerned about her, beyond how much I care for any other random senior citizen.
To answer the spirit of the question, though we can talk about my parents, who are grandparents now.
Both are educated and about as tech proficient as I am. However, my mom nearly got caught in a gift card scam a few years ago, where someone was posing as one of her friends. She had even bought the cards, but insisted on going to give them in-person, which exposed the scam.
Because of that, I think my parents are actually pretty safe, as they are now extra vigilant about the messages they receive, and know to follow up anything suspicious using an alternate communication method.
I know, "once bitten twice shy," isn't the best defence, but alternate communication methods are. Stress to your loved ones that if they ever recieve a message from someone asking for money, to follow up using a different medium.
I never truly appreciated this recurring gag in the Buttons and Mindy segments of Animaniacs until I had a toddler of my own.